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Sunday, March 6, 2016

No visit to a new destination is complete without sampling the unique cuisine of the place. We were fortunate indeed to have had unique culinary experiences in Gyeongju...

Our first full course meal in Gyeongju was a multi-course Korean meal after we visited the Bunhwangsa temple yesterday...

We visited this traditional Korean eatery - multiple side dishes, mainly seasonal vegetables, seaweed, mushrooms and sprouts, alongwith curried fish, pork, tofu, seaweed soup and rice. And that is what I loved about Korean - it is rich in fibre and is spicy!

Our destination for dinner last night was Curry Hut in the heart of Gyeongju's commercial area...

Curry Hut is ornately decorated with Indian motifs...

When we were in India, I used to loathe eating Indian cuisine while dining out, but it has been a different story since we shifted to Korea...

The place advertises itself as an Indian restaurant but as we discovered, the owner is a Pakistani from Lahore. Pakistanis hate Indians and dare I say, we have similar emotions for them but then why the hell would they call the food they sell "Indian"...

A Korean friend here told me that there is a bit of stigma that the locals have towards Pakistanis given their involvement in terror. That has forced Pakistani restaurant to peddle their food as "Indian". And that is also a big indicator of India's immense and unquantified soft power that even Pakistanis bow down to, even though they would hate to admit it (frankly, I don't care!)...